birdland

• joe zawinul, jaco pastorius, wayne shorter, alex acuna ve manolo badrena'dan oluşan (ki öncesinde ve sonrasında her zaman elemaları ve formu değişmiştir.) weather report'un en güzel albümlerinden heavy weather albümünde yeralan, kompozisyon ve aranjman harikası, mükemmel parça.
• jazz'ın bebop döneminde, charlie parker ve dizzy gillespie günlerinde charlie'nin lakabı yardbird'den esinlenerek açılmış gece kulübü. daha sonra eroin kullanmaktan iyice uçan charlie'nin içeriye girmesini yasaklamış ironik mekan.
• patti smithin horses albümünde yer alan şarkı.
• the manhattan transfer'in pek bir oynak sarkisi:
  
  5,000 light years from birdland
  but i’m still preachin’ the rhythm
  long-gone, uptight years from birdland
  an’ i’m still teachin’ it with ’em
  
  years from the land of the bird
  an’ i am still feelin’ the spirit
  5,000 light years from birdland
  but i know people can hear it
  
  bird named it, bird made it, bird heard it, then played it
  well-stated! birdland--
  it happened down in birdland
  
  oh!
  
  in the middle of that hub
  i remember one jazz club
  where we went to pat feet
  down on fifty-secon’ street
  
  everybody heard that word
  that they named it after bird
  
  where the rhythm swooped and swirled
  the jazz corner of the world
  
  an’ the cats they gigged in there
  were beyond compare
  
  birdland - i’m singin’ birdland
  birdland - ol’ swingin’ birdland
  
  hey, man, the music really turns you on!
  y’ turn me on,
  really, y’ turn me aroun’
  ’n turn me on
  
  down them stairs, lose them cares - where?
  down in birdland
  total swing, bop was king - there
  down in birdland
  bird would cook, max would look - where?
  down in birdland
  miles came through, ’trane came too - there
  down in birdland
  basie blew, blakey too - where?
  down in birdland
  cannonball played that hall - there
  down in birdland
  yeah---
  
  there may never be nothin’ such as that
  no mo’ - no mo’
  down in birdland, that’s where it was at
  i know - i know
  back in them days bop was ridin’ high
  hello! ’n goodbye!
  
  how well those cats remember
  their first birdland gig
  to play in birdland is an honor we still dig
  yeah---that club was like--
  in another world, sure enough--
  yeah, baby
  all o’ the cats had the cookin’ on
  people just sat an’ they was steady lookin’ on
  then bird--he came ’n spread the word--
  birdland
  
  yes, indeed, he did
  yes, indeed, he did
  yes, indeed, he did
  yes, he did, parker played at birdland
  yes, he really did
  yes, indeed, he really did
  yes, he really did
  told the truth down in birdland
  yes, indeed he did, yardbird parker played in
  birdland
  
  yes, indeed, he really did
  charlie parker played in birdland
  
  bird named it, bird made it, bird heard it,
  then played it
  well-stated! birdland
  it happened down in birdland
  
  everybody dug that beat
  everybody stomped their feet
  everybody digs be-bop
  an’ they’ll never stop
  
  down them stairs, lose them cares - yeah!
  down in birdland
  total swing! bop was king - yeah!
  down in birdland
  
  bird would cook, max would look - yeah,
  down in birdland
  miles came through, ’trane came too - yeah!
  down in birdland
  basie blew, blakey too - yeah!
  down in birdland
  
  cannonball played that hall - yeah
  down in birdland
  
  down them stairs, lose them cares - yeah
  down in birdland
  total swing! bop was king - yeah
  down in birdland
  
  bird would cook, max would look - yeah,
  down in birdland
  miles came through, ’trane came too - yeah!
  down in birdland
  
  basie blew, blakey too - yeah!
  down in birdland
  cannonball played that hall - yeah
  down in birdland
  
  down them stairs, lose y’ cares -yeah
  down in birdland
  total swing! bop was king - yeah
  down in birdland
  
  bird would cook, max would look - yeah,
  down in birdland
  
  background solo:
  come in pairs down them stairs, lose y’ cares
  them that dares gits it!
  
  pay the gate, don’t be late
  it’s a date! - whattay’ know
  if y’ dig, then you’ll dig, it’s a groove
  quite a groove, ’cause y’ t’ move
  come in twos, pay your dues
  
  what can you lose?
  just your blues!
  so lose them!
  
  the band swingin’ one and all and what a ball!
  yeah!
  
  music is good, music is better than good
  pretty good
  very nice
  really very good - things are bein’ like they should
  very good -- very good -- very good
  
  all y’ gotta do is lend an ear
  an’ listen to it
  then y’ dig a little sooner than soon
  you’ll be diggin’ everything diggin’ all the music
  
  what a ball!
  
  how y’ gonna figure out
  a way t’ bring it all about amid a
  lot o’ other music on the set’n on
  the scene know what i mean?
  how y’ gonna separate the music from the scene
  ’gonna have t’ keep the memory clean
  y’ gonna hear a lotta’ sound -- a lotta soun’
• muhteşem ses, muhteşem yakarış. (bkz: patti smith).
  
  his father died and left him a little farm in new england.
  all the long black funeral cars left the scene
  and the boy was just standing there alone
  looking at the shiny red tractor
  him and his daddy used to sit inside
  and circle the blue fields and grease the night.
  it was if someone had spread butter on all the fine points of the stars
  ’cause when he looked up they started to slip.
  then he put his head in the crux of his arm
  and he started to drift, drift to the belly of a ship,
  let the ship slide open, and he went inside of it
  and saw his daddy ’hind the control board streamin’ beads of light,
  he saw his daddy ’hind the control board,
  and he was very different tonight
  ’cause he was not human, he was not human.
  
  and then the little boy’s face lit up with such naked joy
  that the sun burned around his lids and his eyes were like two suns,
  white lids, white opals, seeing everything just a little bit too clearly
  and he looked around and there was no black ship in sight,
  no black funeral cars, nothing except for him the raven
  and fell on his knees and looked up and cried out,
  “no, daddy, don’t leave me here alone,
  take me up, daddy, to the belly of your ship,
  let the ship slide open and i’ll go inside of it
  where you’re not human, you are not human.”
  
  but nobody heard the boy’s cry of alarm.
  nobody there ’cept for the birds around the new england farm
  and they gathered in all directions, like roses they scattered
  and they were like compass grass coming together into the head of a shaman bouquet
  slit in his nose and all the others went shooting
  and he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of blake
  grabbing at his cheeks, taking out his neck,
  all his limbs, everything was twisted and he said,
  “i won’t give up, won’t give up, don’t let me give up,
  i won’t give up, come here, let me go up fast,
  take me up quick, take me up, up to the belly of a ship
  and the ship slides open and i go inside of it where i am not human.”
  
  i am helium raven and this movie is mine,
  so he cried out as he stretched the sky,
  pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am i all alone in this generation?
  we’ll just be dreaming of animation night and day
  and won’t let up, won’t let up and i see them coming in,
  oh, i couldn’t hear them before, but i hear ’em now,
  it’s a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights
  moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them,
  and he put up his hands and he said, “it’s me, it’s me,
  i’ll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up,
  i’m helium raven waitin’ for you, please take me up,
  don’t let me here,” the son, the sign, the cross,
  like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman,
  the mother standing in the doorway letting her sons
  no longer presidents but prophets
  they’re all dreaming they’re gonna bear the prophet,
  he’s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation
  it’s all gonna split his skull
  it’s gonna come out like a black bouquet shining
  like a fist that’s gonna shoot them up
  like light, like mohammed boxer
  take them up up up up up up
  oh, let’s go up, up, take me up, i’ll go up,
  i’m going up, i’m going up
  take me up, i’m going up, i’ll go up there
  go up go up go up go up up up up up up up
  up, up to the belly of a ship.
  let the ship slide open and we’ll go inside of it
  where we are not human, we’re not human.
  
  well, there was sand, there were tiles,
  the sun had melted the sand and it coagulated
  like a river of glass
  when it hardened he looked at the surface
  he saw his face
  and where there were eyes were just two white opals, two white opals,
  where there were eyes there were just two white opals
  and he looked up and the rays shot
  and he saw raven comin’ in
  and he crawled on his back and he went up
  up up up up up up
  sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
  sha da do wop, da shaman do way, sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
  sha da do wop, da shaman do way,
  we like birdland.
• (bkz: #8982645)
• patti smithin sapık bi şarkısı. mükemmel.
• weather report'un 1977 çıkışlı akıllara zarar albümü heavy weather'dan muhteşem bir joe zawinul kompozisyonu. ilginç sayılabilecek bir şekilde, o dönemde nba maçlarında çalacak derecede hit olmuştur. olağanüstü ticari başarısının yanı sıra, kısa sürede bir caz standardı haline gelmiş, birçok jazz-fusion grubunun repertuarında yer edinmiştir.
  
  her zaman olduğu gibi, jaco^*'nun perdesiz bas performansı muhteşemdir. ton, teknik, yaratıcılık, groove vs. her anlamda.
  
  birdland, bir müzik eserinin yapısal elementlerini hangi şekilde bir araya getirilmesi anlamında düzenleme (aranjman) bakımından geride bıraktığımız yüzyılın şaheserlerinden biridir. hatta bana kalırsa, bir adım daha öteye götürecek olursak, düzenleme denen şeyin bizzat kendisidir.
• her sabah bir doz dinlense, en boktan güne bile güneş açtıracak bir hava durumu^* saheseridir.
• rahmetli joe zawinulun viyananin 3. bölgesinde acmis oldugu mekanin adidir. tuzlu fiyatlarindan ve mainstream cizgisinden dolayi hic gitmisligim yoktur ama yine de sikici dükkanlardan ve almanca dublajli filmler gösteren bir sinemadan baska bir numarasi olmayan landstrasse hauptstrasse´yi biraz olsun canlandirmaktadir.